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Paradigms

by Baruch Zeichner

Paradigms brings you inspired inspiring people exploring visions of a viable future for life on Earth, including humans; and great music from around the world! Music on Paradigms is licensed through BMI and ASCAP Please check out our Patreon Campaign at https://www.patreon.com/Paradigms Visit Paradigms on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Gxltnm0gcs6NFhUh_t_fQ Paradigms merchandise at https://paradigmsmerch.square.site

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Episodes

  1. Fugu Dugu – "Bucky Wanko and The Legend of Baba Yaga"

    Olya Prohorova of Fugu Dugu talks about their new album Bucky Wanko and The Legend of Baba Yaga just released as the band is about to embark on a northeast US (and one show in Canada) tour. The album title says it, this is a story involving a powerful mythic figure and a human. The music is...

  2. Opium Moon – "The Time Has Come"

    Grammy winners Opium Moon have released another glorious album,The Time Has Come, a 10 piece cycle inspired by and offered with love and hope for the family of humanity. This four-piece ensemble has been coming together for the last decade creating luscious intentional vibrations and sending them...

  3. Red Spirit Singers – "Land of the Sun (Ute Nation Utah)"

    Red Spirit Singers have released a recording of traditional and new songs. Land of the Sun (Ute Nation Utah) brings Pow Wow rhythm and intention to songs both ancient and new. A.J. Kanip, Daniel Cesspooch and Grammy winner Ian Brennan talk with Baruch about this record, focusing on a few of the...

  4. Charlton Singleton – Ranky Tanky "This Village"

    Charlton Singleton is a Grammy-winning Trumpeter, Composer, and Band Leader. One of his musical ventures is as part of the group Ranky Tanky who have just released a new record This Village. Ranky Tanky is Kevin Hamilton on Bass, Quiana Parle Vocalist, Clay Ross playing Guitar and Vocals, and...

  5. Jeremy Green – "In Motion"

    Jeremy Green hails from Toronto, Canada where he's been playing music for much of his life. Inspired by music, Jeremy has been exploring genres and writing his own songs. He's given himself permission to play what he wants rather than what others expect and it's led him to a joyful musical…

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  6. Mélisande – "Sur la même longueur d'onde"

    Mélisande is a musician from Quebec where she was exposed to lots of different kinds of music growing up. Always listening to her own inner music, Mélisande has become a performer who electrifies audiences and gets people moving! Sur la même longueur d'onde is the new album bringing together...

  7. L. D. Vellani & Mebanesville with Si Kahn – "ICE Fishing in America"

    Larry Vellani is part of a community of musicians called Mebanesville, and they've just released an album of songs by the prolific and wonderful Si Kahn, with a couple of Larry's in the mix as well. ICE Fishing in America is a collection that speak to the current political situation in the United...

  8. Lynn Hollyfield – "Diving In"

    Lynn Hollyfield has been making music for many years, sharing personal stories and experiences in order to communicate about life with other humans. Her newest album Diving In is an exploration of thoughts and feelings about what is happening in the world today. Some of the songs are about the…

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  9. Frederico7 – "Brasileirôu"

    Frederico Forte aka Frederico7 offers a musical magical journey of integration and celebrating the human experience, inspired by living in different places, with an innate sense of sacred theater that started in childhood, is driven by rhythms and harmonies that take the listener along for a…

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  10. Lance Cowan – "The Air That You Breathe"

    Lance Cowan has been writing songs for many years, but worked mainly as a publicist for other musicians. Now he's released his third album The Air That You Breathe, 11 songs about living in this world. Lance knows a lot of great musicians, some of whom are on this record, songwriting and playing;...

  11. Pharaoh's Daughter – "Song of Desire"

    Basya Schechter leads Pharaoh's Daughter an ensemble that has just released an album Song of Desire which is a new approach to The Song of Songs which is an ancient text that addresses human love and divine love. The music is a truly exciting encounter inspired by this revered poem, focused…

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  12. Kevin Smeltzer – "Fabricated Worlds"

    Kevin Smeltzer has surprised himself by making this amazing record Fabricated Worlds, a collection of songs, a variety of sonic experiences inspired by Life behind the mask. What is it to be one's authentic self in this world? How do we avoid and embrace our own realness? The music is complex and...

  13. AurallaurA – "The Critique of Capital: An Engaging Revue"

    AurallaurA has just released a new record The Critique of Capital: An Engaging Revue. Thirteen songs, mostly originals, exploring themes of culture, relationship, and community. Laura Chu Wiens has been making music for much of her life. This is her second record, sharing her own compositions,...

  14. Si Kahn & George Mann – "Mayday!"

    Mayday! is the new album from George Mann and Si Kahn. Si has a career as a songwriter, performer, and labor union organizer and activist spanning more than half a century. George has spent decades writing and performing. He's been a journalist, a union organizer, and regularly does shows in...

  15. Emie R. Roussel – The Emie R. Roussel Trio "TERR"

    Emie R. Roussel has just released a new record TERR with her trio, Nicolas Bédard on Contrebasse & basse électrique, and Dominic Cloutier on Drums. This record, made by good friends who have played together for years, is inspired by love of Earth, of friends, of life. The music is lovely and...

  16. Jane Fallon – "Sweet Resilience"

    Jane Fallon has been making music for decades. Inspired by the magic of music itself and her fascination with words and meaning, Jane fashions songs with messages, exploring points of view, feelings, and events. Jane's latest album is Sweet Resilience and she has a new one coming out soon! The...

  17. Tara Fortier – Physicist

    Tara Fortier is a Canadian physicist, originally from Quebec, currently living in Colorado working as Project Leader in the Time and Frequency Division at National Institute of Standards and Technology. Tara does her best to answer a few of Baruch's Physics questions. Tara will be on Paradigms...

  18. Lewis Stubbs Junior – "West Nashville Sky"

    Lewis Stubbs Junior has just released his first collection of original songs West Nashville Sky. A Nashville native, Lewis grew up with a musical Dad in a music city, He started playing guitar as a pre-teen and never stopped. The music is bluesy rock with a tinge of country. The songs are…

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  19. Katie Bull – "The Hope Etudes"

    Katie Bull grew up in an artistic family surrounded by the music of brilliant players jamming in her living room. It is only natural that she would become an amazing musician herself. Katie's new record The Hope Etudes is a vibrant excursion into Katie's world of sound and meaning. The album is a...

  20. Ernest Aines – "Spiral Bound" and more

    Ernest Aines started playing guitar as a child in Australia. Songwriting came later, drawing inspiration from the Singer Songwriters of earlier decades. He's recorded an EP Already Found, an album Spiral Bound and a number of singles, and is currently working on his next recordings. Ernest has…

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  21. David Coller & Diane Chodkowski – "When Summer Comes"

    David Coller has just released an album with long-time collaborator Diane Chodkowski When Summer Comes. David has been making music for most his life but disappeared from "the scene" some years ago, but now he's back! This is music in the folk tradition of the early to mid 20th century, with…

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  22. Ron Wilkins & Rebecca Patterson – "The Vigil and The Sleeping Giant"

    Ron Wilkins and Rebecca Patterson have just released a record The Vigil and The Sleeping Giant from their project Trombocalists. The album includes a four-movement Covid Suite and four additional compositions. This is big band music taken to a whole new level of consciousness! Both Rebecca and…

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  23. Sue Cahill – "Evanstonia"

    While Sue Cahill has an extensive and accomplished background as a Bassist with The Colorado Symphony, and she is also into Jazz. Her new record Evanstonia is her first album of her own compositions. Sue is Professor of Bass at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music. She was…

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  24. Kim Moberg – "All That Really Matters" and "The Seven Fires Prophecy Suite"

    Kim Moberg has released her fourth album All That Really Matters, 8 original songs with 2 very personal covers. In 2023 Kim released The Seven Fires Prophecy Suite for Humanity. Kim ancestry is Tlingit, which heritage informs her art. Both albums are intimate and deep. Kim is sharing powerful...

  25. Joe Troop & The Truth Machine

    Joe Troop & The Truth Machine have a new EP out, The Truth Machine 5 songs for right now, this week! If you love bluegrass you'll enjoy this 5 piece ensemble of excellent players and their fun political humor and gravity, both. Check them out. Joe Troop has many musical projects going, another…

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  26. James Houlahan – "On a Wing"

    James Houlahan has just released his seventh album On a Wing a collection of mostly original songs, and two beloved covers, inspired by life! Since following his muse from Boston to Los Angeles some years ago, James has been making music and finding musical community, and now he and his partner...

  27. Nani Vazana – "Ke Haber"

    Nani Vazana has been making music for much of her life, first as an instrumentalist and then as a singer and songwriter. Nani grew up speaking with her grandmother in Ladino, the nearly-extinct language of the Sephardic Jews. This led to learning traditional songs in Ladino and her 2017 record...

  28. Natalie Bogwalker and Chloe Lieberman – "The New Natural Food Garden"

    Natalie Bogwalker and Chloe Lieberman have written a great book The New Natural Food Garden: A Comprehensive Guide to Growing a Bountiful Harvest with Less Work, in Partnership with Nature. Having worked and gardened and taught gardening together for years at Wild Abundance, this book was an...

  29. John Clay – "About Time"

    John Clay has just released his first album, after decades of playing and recording with other peoples' bands. This very intentional collection of songs brings us the sounds of talented friends playing beautiful music together. The title About Time refers not just to John finally making a record...

  30. Rafe Pearlman – "Kanu" and so much more

    Rafe Pearlman is a human who creates magical healing spaces with poetry and music, and friends. His personal story is archetypal. Out of his life experience and who he is, Rafe brings us Kanu which is a story cycle; songs and narrative that give us a taste of the power of nature as source…

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  31. Doctor Nativo – "Barriokandela"

    Doctor Nativo has released a new record Barriokandela a collection of songs that are intended to celebrate and explore our shared human journey. The music is juicy and alive! These songs invite us to feel our common humanity and to share that with our fellow humans. Doctor Nativo grew up steeped…

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  32. Javier Jara – "Our Rhythms Our Voices"

    Javier Jara has been working on his latest album for a number of years, and it is now done! Our Rhythms, Our Voices is a collection of 12 songs, each the story of a real person, honoring Latin Americans for their contributions to The United States, while also exposing the scapegoating and...

  33. Alan Young – Serious Child "What Lies Beneath"

    Serious Child is the artist name of Alan Young, who discovered music later in life and now travels around the UK performing original songs. His latest record is What Lies Beneath, 12 original songs about life. Alan also produces other artists and, with his partner Kate, runs a not for profit...

  34. Kray Van Kirk – "Empire"

    Kray Van Kirk has a new record, Empire which is a heartfelt collection of songs addressing the current state of things. These poems are to the point, reminding us of our mythic past as we contend with how to intentionally create a sustainable and just future for humanity. Kray is on an…

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  35. Teresa Tudury – "Perhaps You've Heard Of Me"

    Teresa Tudury has stories to tell! She is known for her musicality and her humorous wit. A traveling musician for decades, Teresa has spent time with Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Rickie Lee Jones, Charlie Musselwhite, Dave Clark and many more. Teresa's most recent record is Perhaps You've Heard…

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  36. Diane Coll – "Strangely in Tune"

    Diane Coll is a prolific writer and composer. On her new album Strangely in Tune Diane continues to explore her own musicality, electrically rockin' her folk roots, with lush vocal arrangements and songs that speak to the current state of humanity. This is Diane's fourth visit to Paradigms, and…

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  37. Gilmar Gomes – "11:11"

    Gilmar Gomes has just released his first solo album 11:11 after touring with Enrique Iglesias for many years. Gilmar is originally from Brazil but has been living in the US for over 25 years, making music with great artists like Angelique Kidjo, Harry Belafonte, Shakira, Rihanna, Meshell...

  38. Jeff Lofton – "ATX Rhythm"

    Jeff Lofton has released a new album of original and well known songs exploring the essence of Texas, ATX Rhythm. Some of these songs may not have seemed like Jazz pieces until Jeff played them. Jeff Lofton is originally from South Carolina where he got his start as a musician. Now he's part of…

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  39. Wesli – "Makaya"

    Wesli has released a new record which is truly epic. Makaya is a collection of songs from and about Haiti, in the many styles of Haitian culture from traditional to modern. The history of Haiti is rife with exploitation from colonial powers, and still to this day Haiti is a sacrifice zone where...

  40. Mark Rubin – "Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad"

    Mark Rubin, Jew of Oklahoma is an Okie making music that's mostly Americana and Bluegrass with a hint of Klezmer, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern flavors. His songs are often political, seeking to reach people's hearts and minds with messages of conscience. His new album is Dispatches: Songs...

  41. Nia Cephas – Debut Album "Cosmicpolitan"

    Nia Cephas has just released her debut album Cosmicpolitan. The music is upbeat, inspired by Nia's life and experiences, which she shares in the conversation with Baruch. Sometimes life throws such incredibly painful and difficult challenges our way, and Nia is a person who continues to rise to...

  42. New Years Eve 2026 with co-host John Reed – 2025 Retrospective

    This is a joint episode between Paradigms and John Reed‘s radio program The Compendium. John Reed co-hosts with Baruch to share a retrospective of 2025 in music. Music by: Banning Eyre, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Crys Matthews, Eric Faulkner, Lilli Lewis, Karine Polwart, Dee Robinson, Kalandra,...

  43. Atlas Maior – "Palindromlar"

    Joshua Thomson and Josh Peters of the band Atlas Maior join Baruch to discuss their musical background and inspirations, this band, and their new record Palindromlar. This band continues to evolve, bringing music from North Africa (The Middle East) together with Free Jazz, exploring cultural…

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  44. Abraham Gomez-Delgado – Zemog El Gallo Bueno "¡Ya Tú Sabes! You Already Noe"

    Abraham Gomez-Delgado's band is Zemog El Gallo Bueno and they have just released a new record ¡Ya Tú Sabes! You Already Noe which is a lush wild colorful juicy set of music with smashing lyrics coming out of the imagination of this accomplished group of artists, many of them Grammy winners.…

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  45. Chris Rawlins – "Flyover"

    Chris Rawlins has released his third full-length album Flyover. Hailing from the midwest of the United States, Chris is connected with the landscape, the people and places, of which he writes. It's a gentle, touching record. Chris' musicianship is multifaceted, both as a solo performer and with a...

  46. Qais Essar & Sonny Singh – "Sangat"

    Qais Essar & Sonny Singh have collaborated on a beautiful record Sangat which means Beloved Community. They are on a mission of bringing people together, moving past the divisions that humans are susceptible to in service to a greater vision of a peaceful world. The music is beautiful. Sonny and...

  47. Mark Growden – "11 Hours" and more!

    Mark Growden is one of those people who sees an instrument, touches it, and instinctively knows how to play it, most of the time. He is a composer, choral director, and visual artist. He has released a number of records and there is more to come! His current release, 11 Hours is all Jaw Harp.…

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  48. Veronneau – "Blue Tapestry"

    Blue Tapestry celebrates two iconic albums by two pioneering women in music, Joni Mitchell and Carole King, translated through Lynn's unique voice and Ken's gentle jazzy guitar. The post Veronneau – “Blue Tapestry” appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

  49. Josh Fortenbery – "Tidy Memorial"

    Josh's songwriting and storytelling echo with the tradition of bards from times gone by, while addressing modern concerns and events. The post Josh Fortenbery – “Tidy Memorial” appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

  50. Alice DiMicele – "Reverse the Flow"

    Alice has been on her mission for many years, deepening her experience and abilities to communicate with beauty and clarity. Her songs are moving, and the musicianship on the record is excellent. The post Alice DiMicele – “Reverse the Flow” appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Paradigms brings you inspired inspiring people exploring visions of a viable future for life on Earth, including humans; and great music from around the world!

Music on Paradigms is licensed through BMI and ASCAP

Please check out our Patreon Campaign at https://www.patreon.com/Paradigms

Visit Paradigms on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Gxltnm0gcs6NFhUh_t_fQ

Paradigms merchandise at https://paradigmsmerch.square.site

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Baruch Zeichner

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